Press (and other coverage)

From the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to New Scientist and The Daily Mail, here's a random selection of press coverage from the last few years. There are many more reviews on the books page. My books are published all around the world so a few of these pieces are not in English. (But you do speak Slovak, don't you... so that's ok.)

Breathless

• How to actually make your travel better for the planet by Natalie B. Compton, The Washington Post, September 2021.
• Every breath you take by Chris Woodford, iNews, March 2021.
• Neil Mackay's Big Read: Air Pollution, The Herald, March 2021.
• How to help stop the world's biggest invisible killer by Chris Woodford, Balance magazine, May 2021.
• Air pollution in parts of Dartford worse than Paris, Madrid and Rome amid calls for more effective monitoring sites, Dartford Chronicle, April 2021.
• The Book Department, The Bay Magazine, March 2021.
• 'Ever since humans discovered fire, air pollution has been an issue': Chris Woodford" by Nick Smith, IET, March 2021.
• Air pollution: Rosamund Kissi-Debrah and Chris Woodford on his new book Breathless, Alexis Conran/Times Radio, 13 March 2021.
• Books of the month: From Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun to Melissa Broder's Milk Fed by Martin Chilton, The Independent, 8 March 2021.
• The Jo Good Show: Chris Woodford speaks about the impact of lockdown pollution, BBC Radio London, 4 March 2021.

Atoms Under the Floorboards

• Il libro di Chris Woodford per capire come funziona tutto ciò che ci circonda by Maria Arcà, Galileo (Italy), 15 August 2019.
• Ecco perché (prima o poi) tutte le automobili saranno elettriche by Chris Woodford, Linkieta (Italy), 15 August 2019.
• Impariamo le leggi della fisica nella vita domestica quotidiana by Andrea Porta, Airone (Italy), May 2019.
• "Prendete in giro i terrapiattisti, ma sapete perchê il vento non butta giù i grattacieli?": TPI intervista il divulgatore scientifico Chris Woodford by Nicola Baroni, The Post Internazionale (Italy), 24 April 2019.
• Bellini: spiegare il design ai bambini ci permette di capire meglio il suo significato, Radio 24 (Italy), 7 April 2019.
• Buono quel ketchup ma per capirlo ci vuole la fisica [PDF] by Alex Saragosa, Il Venerdì, La Repubblica (Italy), 22 February 2019.
• 13 Scientific Explanations for Everyday Life by Shaunacy Farro, Mental Floss, 10 July 2018.
• Review: Atoms under the floorboards by Jamie Durrani, Chemistry World, 2016.
• Chris Woodford: The difficulty of explaining science, Talk Radio Europe (Spain), 24 November 2017.
• Upstairs, downstairs by Chris Woodford, Elementy (Russia), 2017.
• The cool stuff about atoms: Ask your questions by Debarghya Sanyal, Business Standard (India), 2016.
• Top physics books of 2015 by Margaret Harris, Physics World, 3 December 2015.
• AIP Congratulates its 2016 Science Writing Award Winners, American Institute of Physics, 6 October 2016.
• New in paperback: 'Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel' by Andreea Ciulac, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2016.
• Bright Ideas by William Gurstelle, Wall Street Journal, 19 June 2015. [Review of Atoms Under the Floorboards]
• An excerpt from Chris Woodford's new book, 'Atoms Under the Floorboards' by Chris Woodford, Boing Boing, 12 May 2015.
• Atoms under the floorboards by Cary Seidman, The Science Teacher, NSTA Recommends, November 2015, p.72.
• Concentrate... here comes the science bit: The eggheads' take on daily life by Amanda Killelea, Daily Mirror, 5 September 2015.
• Atoms Under The Floorboards by Chris Woodford (book review) by UncleGeoff, SF Crows Nest, September 2015.
• Book Marks by Sue Townsend, Cape Times (South Africa), 17 July 2015, p.27.
• How to have all the answers for your curious kid by Vivien Horler, Cape Argus (South Africa), Sunday 12 July 2015, p.19.
• The Modern Notion Podcast: Atoms Under the Floorboards: Interview by Emma Morgenstern, 19 June 2015.
• Book Rack, Deccan Herald (India), June 2015.
• Atoms Under the Floorboards: review by Patrick Gane, The Sun, 27 March 2015, p.60.
• That Science Bit: Freezing Flowers, The Anton Savage Show, Today FM (Ireland), 12th March 2015.
• Why Your Car is a Chemistry Lab on Wheels by Chris Woodford, Yahoo! India, 20 February 2015. (Chapter extract for the Indian market.)

"Cool Stuff" books

• Up close and personal with design classics: Cool Stuff Exploded by Chris Woodford: Daily Mail, December 2008.
• Christmas gift books guide: The Globe and Mail (Canada), 8 December 2008.
• GeekDad Review: Cool Stuff Exploded by Chris Woodford by Matt Blum, Wired, September 2008.
• Review: Cool Stuff Exploded by Chris Woodford by David Robson, New Scientist, December 2008.
• Wondrous Tales—All True by Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 9 December 2007.
• Science Books for Fun and Learning: Some Recommendations from 2006 by Heather Malcolmson et al, Science, Vol. 314, No. 5805 (Dec. 8, 2006), pp. 1543–1545.
• How Cool Stuff Works—In short by Ian Finlayson, The Times (London), Books, 1 October 2005, p.10.
• The funny and peculiar facts of life - Books Reference by Boyd Tonkin, The Independent, 2 December 2005, pp.8–9.

Miscellaneous

Some of these are interviews, some are book reviews, some are one-off articles, some are translated versions of my articles published by other people, some feature quotes from me (or "Explain that Stuff"), and some are interesting, fleeting mentions.

• "Scientists who changed history": a pop book by Claudio Bellumori, L'Opinione (Italy), March 2021.
• The Pineapple's Deadly Cousin and The Internet Explained (by Chris Woodford), Fun Kids Science Weekly Podcast, 23 January 2021.
• Up Your Game With Physics, Science Museum of Minnesota, 2 July 2020.
• Electric guitars by Chris Woodford, Front Vision (China), 2020.
• The 2020s: life as we will know it in the next decade by Nadine Dreyer, Sunday Times (South Africa), 5 January 2020.
• How important are supercomputers to the US and China?: VN Express (Vietnam), 25 June 2019.
• The secret code only you and God know, Tirto (Indonesia), 2019.
• How can we reduce plastic in our beauty routine?, Women's Environmental Network, 2018.
• Science: A Children's Encyclopedia—by Chris Woodford & Steve Parker by Robin Brooks, Geek Dad, 5 September 2018.
• È come un bacio appassionato", ecco perché non resistiamo al cioccolato. E festeggiamo la giornata mondiale by Eleonora Cozzella, La Repubblica (Italy), 7 July 2018.
• Hey Golfers, Sports Fans And Everyone Else - Lightning Causes Thunder by Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 25 June 2018.
• Inside the workhorse engine: Business World, 31 January 2018.
• Supercapacitor breakthrough suggests EVs could charge in seconds but with a trade-off: Teslerati, December 2016.
• Hoe komt het dat we de warmte van de zon voelen? by Debarghya Sanyal, Rijmond (Holland), 17 December 2016.
• Is nanotech failing casual learners? by Andrew D. Maynard, Nature, 7 September 2016.
• What are the technologies of the future and what will robots do for us? by Chris Woodford and Steve Parker, Pravda (Slovakia), 24 September 2015.
• Want to learn to surf? Science can help you by Vincent Manilève, Slate (France), 17 August 2015.
• Los diez experimentos de la física que cambiaron la historia by R. Pérez (Spain), 9 August 2015.
• The chameleon Lamborghini: Vehicle changes colour to reveal a Captain America design thanks to heat-sensitive paint by Jack Millner, Daily Mail, 31 July 2015.
• Who knew frying an egg could blow your mind! by Sarah Griffiths, Daily Mail, 16 July 2015.
• Motion in the ocean: the energy in waves by Chris Woodford, Surfing Doctors Europe, 7 July 2015.
• Superstrong Science: Explore Nanotechnology Using Paper by Science Buddies, Scientific American, 29 January 2015.
• The wonder of wetsuits by Chris Woodford, Surfing Doctors Europe, 22 December 2012.
• Chris Woodford talks to Plastic is Rubbish: Plasticisrubbish Blog, 1 October 2011.
• The Elements: Chris Woodford by Elizabeth Offutt, The Science Teacher, September 2003, p.98.

Radio interviews and podcasts

Most of the interviews I've done aren't online, but here are a few that seem to have escaped the "delete" button:

• Why are fax machines still popular in Japan? with Luke Jones, The John Pienaar Show, Times Radio, 10 August 2021.
• Air pollution: Rosamund Kissi-Debrah and Chris Woodford on his new book Breathless with Alexis Conran, Times Radio, 13 March 2021.
• The Jo Good Show: Chris Woodford speaks about the impact of lockdown pollution: BBC Radio London, 4 March 2021.
• The Pineapple's Deadly Cousin and The Internet Explained (by Chris Woodford) with Dan Simpson, Fun Kids Science Weekly Podcast, 23 January 2021.
• That Science Bit: Freezing Flowers: The Anton Savage Show, Today FM, 12th March 2015. 15–minute interview about Atoms Under the Floorboards on one of Ireland's top daytime radio shows.
• Chris Woodford: The difficulty of explaining science: Talk Radio Europe, 24 November 2017. Do "ordinary" people understand science and, if not, what can we do to help?
• The Modern Notion Podcast: 19 June 2015. A 10–15 minute chat about Atoms Under the Floorboards with Emma Morgenstern. The interview begins at 37:27.

Citations

I dropped out of academia and the citation rat-race many years ago and I don't generally write in peer-reviewed journals. But if you're interested in that sort of thing, you can find academic and technical citations to my books (and online articles) through my Google Scholar profile, a general search on Google Scholar (which, for some reason, gives a lot more results), and via Google Books. Take all this with a pinch of salt: like everything Google does, these are automatically "aggregated" and very flawed.

Tweets

I don't use Twitter, but I do "listen" to the feedback people leave in Tweets about things I've written. This is one of my favourites: